17th June
…coloured forms from mauve-purple to red and dark red. The clumps on the drive, in the Auklandii Garden and outside the front gate are full out now and flowering more…
…coloured forms from mauve-purple to red and dark red. The clumps on the drive, in the Auklandii Garden and outside the front gate are full out now and flowering more…
…rare species for 10 miles (i.e. at Tregrehan) so why are seed setting? Earlier in the year I photographed just a few yellow flowers (female flowers purple) which I assumed…
…A fine display of Lythrum salicaria or Purple Loosestrife outside the front gates. This has regrown to flowering size after the first grass cut in late June. Lythrum salicaria Lythrum…
…at all convinced. The purple colouring on the new growth looks, perhaps, more like Ilex x meserveae ‘Blue Prince’ or ‘Blue Princess’? holly holly A 50 year old Lithocarpus pachyphyllus…
…The plants outside at Caerhays shown a few days ago were much more purple-black than this. Camellia ‘Takanini’ Camellia ‘Takanini’ Camellia ‘Takanini’ Camellia ‘Winter’s Dream’ Camellia ‘Winter’s Dream’ Camellia ‘Winter’s…
…leaf colours. Some have a purple hue while others remain green. A good new plant which will become popular once it is better known. Mahonia gracilipes Mahonia gracilipes 2017 –…
…The seeds looked right when I had occasionally found a few but I had never caught the flowers properly as here. Creamy white clusters of flowers with conspicuous purple veining…
…flowers, when fully open flat, are 2.5in or 6-7cm across. What about that for a flowering tree in a woodland garden in mid/late June. AND the gorgeous purple/black autumn colour…
…an admission of unnecessary scaremongering and bankrupting the country perhaps?This pack of purple South African plums from Tesco has a clear ‘best before’ date of 5th March. Nearly a month…
…This is another Mexican and Guatemalan species which has a purple blotch in the centre of the flower. Both need propagating for Burncoose. Philadelphus mexicanus Philadelphus mexicanus Philadelphus mexicanus The…